package creation failure

[Lucas Holt]

You should try adding ${DESTDIR} in front of prefix. The ports system expects the make file to support a staging directory. I'd suggest reading up on staging in FreeBSD and dragonfly.  

Lucas Holt

> On Sep 28, 2015, at 9:37 PM, Charles Musser <cmusser at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> I've written a small program on a DragonFly system and I'd like
> to learn how to package it and submit it to the DPorts
> system. Alas, my attempt at creating a port is failing at the
> package creation step.
> 
> Following the Porter Handbook on the FreeBSD site and the
> DragonFly DPorts wiki page, I did this:
> 
> - Make a clean source tarball available on a website for download
> 
> - Created a port in a subdirectory of /usr/dports/dns, with a
>  Makefile, pkg-plist and pkg-descr.
> 
> - Put the source tarball in /usr/distfiles, so that "make
>  makesum" in my new port directory generates distinfo.
> 
> - Finally, in my new subdirectory, "make package". Here's what
>  happens:
> 
> ===> Fetching all distfiles required by rdnssd-1.0.0 for building
> ===>  Extracting for rdnssd-1.0.0
> => SHA256 Checksum OK for rdnssd-1.0.0.tar.gz.
> ===>  Patching for rdnssd-1.0.0
> ===>  Configuring for rdnssd-1.0.0
> ===>  Building for rdnssd-1.0.0
> --- rdnssd ---
> gcc  -g  rdnssd.c  -o rdnssd
> ===>  Staging for rdnssd-1.0.0
> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> /usr/bin/install -C -o root -g wheel rdnssd /usr/local/bin/
> ====> Compressing man pages (compress-man)
> ===>  Building package for rdnssd-1.0.0
> pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/obj/dports/dns/rdnssd/work/stage/usr/local/bin/rdnssd: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /usr/dports/dns/rdnssd
> 
> Oops. /usr/obj/dports/dns/rdnssd/work/stage/usr/local/bin is
> indeed empty. I have a feeling that the install target in my
> source Makefile needs to be different. Currently it's this:
> 
> install: rdnssd
>    /usr/bin/install -C -o root -g wheel rdnssd ${PREFIX}/bin/
> 
> Is this the problem, or are there other things I'm not doing
> right?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
>